Category Archives: Local News
Demolition starts on Appleton Blue Ramp
The major demolition work on a downtown parking ramp is underway. The Blue Ramp is connected to the City Center. City Facilities Director Dean Gazza says crews are starting from the top of the ramp. H...
Mar 15, 2019 (Image from the City of Appleton)
Agency investigating more online predator cases
Investigators believe kids and technology are helping catch more online predators. Lt. Jim Valley of the Brown County Sheriff's department says the work to teach parents and children how to stay a ste...
Mar 14, 2019
Oshkosh schools look at health insurance options
Oshkosh school administrators are going to look at different options for health insurance coverage for teachers and staff. The move comes several months after the school board decided to keep the curr...
Mar 14, 2019 (Image provided by the Oshkosh Area School District)
Flooding displaces several hundred people in FdL
Severe flooding in Fond du Lac displaced hundreds of people. Fond du Lac County Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt says they worked with fire and police departments to get people out of homes and apartment buil...
Mar 14, 2019
Crews blame ice jams for FdL flooding
Areas around the Fox Valley and northeast Wisconsin are being hit by flooding. In the downtown Fond du Lac area firefighters believe ice jams on the Fond du Lac River are to blame. They say the ice cl...
Mar 14, 2019
Imagine Fox Cities initiative seeks long-term vision
There's a new initiative to put together a long-term vision for the Fox Cities area. Beth Flaherty is the co-chair of Imagine Fox Cities. She says they want people to weigh in on what they think is go...
Mar 14, 2019
Appleton schools expand laptop program
All seventh and eighth graders in the Appleton school district now also have their own laptops. The district used recurring funding from a 2014 referendum to buy more Chromebooks for this school year....
Mar 14, 2019
ReStore loses inventory in warehouse fire
A local Habitat for Humanity chapter lost about $70,000 worth of items for its ReStore locations in a fire in the Neenah area. A warehouse burned down on Commerce Plaza, in the Town of Vinland, last w...
Mar 14, 2019
Kaukauna looking to add 2nd police dog
Kaukauna police are in the early stages of raising money for a new drug...and tracking dog. The department's current K-9, Rocko, has been on the job for two or three years. Asst. Chief Jamie Graff say...
Mar 14, 2019
Johnson backs Trump on emergency declaration
Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Oshkosh is siding with President Trump on the national emergency for border security. He voted in favor of the declaration, saying the situation qualifies as an eme...
Mar 14, 2019 (Photo: Senator Ron Johnson)
